Foreign News: What Price Brutus?

Italy's Communist Party last week introduced to history one of its
heroes: the man who shot Benito Mussolini. The tyrannicide turned out
to be a tall (6 ft.), sallow, jowly bookkeeper called Walter Audisio.
As he mounted the platform before a Communist mass meeting in the ruins
of Rome's Basilica of Constantine, clutching a bunch of red carnations,
he bit his lips to keep them from trembling.

"I did not have the impression that I was shooting a human being," said
Audisio, as he launched into his story, which added little to previous
reports of the killing (TIME, May 7, 1945). "When...